Peter Jennings
Correspondent, Film director
1938 – 2005
Who was Peter Jennings?
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM was a Canadian American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer. A high-school dropout, he transformed himself into one of American television's most prominent journalists.
Jennings started his career early, hosting a Canadian radio show at the age of nine. He began his professional career with CJOH-TV in Ottawa during its early years, anchoring the local newscasts and hosting a teen dance show, Saturday Date, on Saturdays.
In 1965, ABC News tapped him to anchor its flagship evening news program. His inexperience was attacked by critics and others in television news, making for a difficult first stint in the anchor chair. Jennings became a foreign correspondent in 1968, reporting from the Middle East.
He returned as one of World News Tonight's three anchors in 1978, and was promoted to the role of sole anchor in 1983.
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- Born
- Jul 29, 1938
Toronto - Also known as
- Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Kati Marton
(1979 - 1993) - Kayce Freed
(1997/12/02 - 2005/08/07) - Valerie Godsoe
- Anoushka Malauf
(1973 - )
- Kati Marton
- Children
- Religion
- Methodism
- Ethnicity
- Canadian-American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- Carleton University
- Trinity College School
- Lisgar Collegiate Institute
- University of Ottawa
- Lived in
- Ottawa
- Toronto
- Died
- Aug 7, 2005
Manhattan
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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